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Can Not Delete Old Email
To answer the original poster's question, there is no real problem with that folder name. During the install, you could have overridden the location and told it to use the old windows folder although you would not want to do that for a clean install if you did not also delete the contents of every folder inside the

How to remove an old personnal folder
To do so, try the following methods in the following order: Method 1 Rename the Ddeml.dll file (or whichever file is listed in the error message) in the Windows\System folder to a .old file extension. To do this, follow these steps: In Windows 95, restart your computer, press the F8 key when you see the "Starting

How to remove old Media Player?
You said: There's no "files" section in any of them and a text search using the old file name against the quicken directory shows no files with the text As Bruce pointed out Quicken.ini is in the C:\Windows folder. It's been one of my beefs for a long time that Quicken should be selfcontained under it's own

My WIN98 took a dump after I updated....
Then Remove (not Delete) the old folder with the command: RD C:\Mystery /s. Finally, rename that new folder to C:\Mystery. If this did not work, please post back I have a mystery file in my Personal folder in Windows Vista, and it's driving me nuts. The file just displays a blank paper icon with no name (see

"newer version found" can't setup IE5
The iuctl.dll file and the iuengine.dll are located in the WINDOWS\System folder for Win ME. Also, remove the Update Class file found in MowGreen *-343-* Never Forgotten KLGilbert wrote: This is probably an old issue, but bear with me. I use ME, and I used to be prompted on my desktop whenever an update was

HELP!
Also, in Windows Explorer, navigate to C:/Windows/Twain (or Twain_32), and remove all the ".bmp's" that you find in there (open them first, to make sure they're just old stuff).....This is your "Scanner" folder and it accumulates a lot of junk :o). Hope this helps. Rick "Queenie" <Someoneh...@msn.com> wrote in

Removing $NtUninstall* files from Windows folder
OLD) The only other files like these are: ICQWSOCK32.DLL which is in the ICQ folder and winsock.old in the WINDOWS folder dated 06/10/1999, 11.51am. Thanking you for your great help in assisting me to get this sorted out. Regards Cher To reply to me by email please remove the "nospam" from my addy.

Save Drivers/ Format
In \Windows folder you will find files that go with the original Media Player including wmppc.htm (the help file), and files that go with the new Media Player Hi, I just installed Media Player 7, but the installation didn't get rid of the original media player. How can I safely remove the old media player app?

Name of Windows directory is c:\Windows.000
Before regediting you could try booting in safe mode to see if any old drivers show up there. If they do, remove them and reboot. The system should detect the Then open the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software' folder and if you see a '3DFX interactive' folder, delete this one as well. 4. Then click on EDIT from the

Bloated Windows folder
(If you have difficulty and if you have enough disk space, from your old windows, copy OSR CD contents to your hard disk first.) Then, from Dos Promt, let's say you made a folder named W951111. CD w951111 and start setup from there. If you dual boot with Windows 3.11 or Workgroup or Foreign Windows, you must rename

My Old Objects Won't Show Up!
Select the matching Windows Hotfix Title relating the update folder/file you have just deleted and select remove. You will get a Windows error. Maybe I'll expand Windows partition some time ... for now, killing year-old "uninstalls" will do just fine. Again, thanks for your explanations and links.

Device Manager, no Monitors branch
Delete the "hosts" file in the Windows folder then try again. If W98's ICS or other network, please post this information. If that doesn't help, 1. Uninstall the Zone through control panel (add/remove software) 2. Restart your system 3. Click start, click run, type regsvr32 /u zpasspc.DLL click OK 4.

Where does OE keep it's mail folders?
To install it use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. To resolve this issue, extract a new copy of Sndvol32.exe from the Windows XP CD to the system_root \System32 folder on your computer's hard disk. To do this, follow these steps: Start/Run/CMD. In the command prompt window type: X: (where X is your CD Drive

Copying Shared folders and retaining share and file permissions
In Windows Explorer, delete the files in the following folders: Windows Folder -------------- Artgalry.cag Exchng.ini Mso97.acl Odbc.ini Odbcinst.ini Twain.dll Twain_32.dll Twunk_16.exe If you are running Microsoft Windows NT, delete the files from the Winnt\System32 folder, NOT the Winnt\System folder.

How do you manually remove Microsoft Word 97?
If you do have files with these names with the .old extension, use a file name extension that is not currently in use. If you cannot uninstall the Windows Desktop Update from the Add/Remove Programs tool, type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each command: cd \<windows> ren explorer.exe explorer.old cd

How To Remove Previous Windows Folder
AlexB al...@comcast.net microsoft public windows vista general OK, it is a bit more difficult than I thought. The drivers extension is usually .sys or .dr. You may try to delete the folder with the old driver in question with administrator's privileges. This way Vista will have a full accountability of what you

How Do I Delete Old Windows Files?
For the most stuborn of PSTs that will not remove from the folder list. IMPORTANT: The following information contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, you should first make a backup copy of the registry files (System.dat and User.dat). Both are hidden files in the Windows folder

Reinstalling 98SE
The system is now working OK but I cannot delete the file "My Old Disk Structure". When I try to do so I get the error message "Cannot delete ASTW_A~2: cannot find This folder is 11.4GB so I would obviously like to get rid of it if I can. Likewise I cannot delete the Windows folder.In this case it appears to go

3dfx
On the Install/Uninstall tab, click Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, and then click Add/Remove. Click "Remove the Windows Desktop Update component, cd \<windows>\System ren shell32.dll shell32.old From the original Windows 95 disks or CD-ROM, extract the Explorer.exe file to the Windows folder and then extract

Help please, Outlook 6 won't start.
john \(alias VM\) thunderboltzy_1...@yahoo.co.uk microsoft public windows vista mail Hi Robert Just a quickie .... Like another guy on this Newsgroup, I am experiencing the same problem... cannot delete the "deleted items" folder. Now nearing the 1K mark, nd after spending 4 hours with a poor english speaking